Posted on 12/26/2013 8:27:51 AM PST by raccoonradio
Conservative talk radio succeed, and still succeeds because it is an outlet for voices that are not heard in the lame stream media. Why do you need a “liberal talk radio”, when you have ABCNBCCBSCNNMSNBCPBSNPR?
Esecially NPR, it is the liberals main radio station, pretty much the same all over the country, so they can get their talking points straight while they are on the way to work if the missed the alphabet network TV shows in the morning.....
All the “liberal radio stars” are on television. That’s what killed the liberal radio star.
To quote Rush, “I _AM_ equal time”.
Nobody listened to them then, nobody watches them now.
If it wasn’t for tax funded stations like NPR subsidizing left wing talk station failure, there probably wouldn’t be many libs on the radio.
Even in blue New England commercial prog talk is rare. Not on in Boston, but in Bangor ME (horrors! Stephen King’s WZON),
western MA, and Brattleboro VT (WKVT, running a local show plus Steph. Miller, Thom Hartmann, Bill Press, Alan Colmes)
you have it...otherwise, nope.
NPR
Stephanie Miller has given me the willies ever since she spent the final hour of her short-lived TV show angrily trashing her bosses for canceling her. Thoroughly unprofessional.
Despite it slapping him in the face, this clown doesn’t notice that publicly funded NPR has driven the commercial market for liberal talkers off a cliff.
Yeah for us! Press three for English...
I was in Argosy Books last week (looking at prints) and NPR was droning on in the background providing the reassurances their progressive staff needs to feel their feelings are the correct ones.
“the steady elimination of progressive radio from the airwaves is part of a nationwide crisis “
Crisis?!?!?!
It is a nationwide BLESSING.
....,,,Liberals can find their bile on hundreds of Public Radio stations but conservatives are all dying off and conservative talk radio is an aging and dying media......
Mr. Error (I meant Errol), come on,!................these hundreds of Public Radio Stations you so merrily alude to are just a handful of votes in the senate away from summary execution!
If 2014 goes the way it very well could, Senate and house super majorities will cancel Obama’s veto and your darling NPR’s execution date will be guaranteed as this government is BROKE!
Your point on advertisers being a “hard sell” on buying time on a station that a is only listened to by perpetually unemployed people is a good one!
+1.
In radio, you can’t fake the numbers.
If you don’t get an audience, you will fail. And there are just not that many true believer liberals out there, so it is hard to build a large audience.
The same thing is happening in TV news, but in slow motion.
Modern liberalism is built on lies, but you can’t lie about the numbers. Math wins in the end, especially on the radio.
The only lib talk that can stay on the air is NPR and that’s cause it’s taxpayer supported.
Even then, according to Arbitron, NPR stations typically have among the lowest market shares in any market.
One time I called into an NPR talk program and when I mentioned the Arbitron data the host hung up on me.
Au contraire.
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